Luthy v. Ream’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 1984 · most notably 32 Ill. 2d 16 - Galler v. Galler (1965), E. K. Buck Retail Stores v. Harkert (1954)
5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions — followed in 10 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. San Francisco & North Pacific Railway Co. · McNulta v. Corn Belt Bank · Durkee v. People ex rel. Askren · Cone v. Russell & Mason · Shepaug Voting Trust Cases
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Compensation voted to an officer of a corporation is illegal if the resolution fixing such compensation is carried by his vote (MeNulta v. Corn Belt Bank, 164 Ill. 427 [ 45 N. E. 954 , 56 Am. St. Rep. 203 ] ; Voorhees v. Mason, 245 Ill. 256 [ 91 N. E. 1056 ]). The salaries voted to the three officers by their own votes were therefore illegal, and the decree of the circuit court properly required the amounts which had been paid on account of such salaries to be refunded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKey v. Swenson“an agreement the purpose and effect of which are to permit the affairs of the corporation to be managed by the determination of persons other than its stockholders . . . is invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.